The crime against the citizens

‘Acturial science graduate Michelle Lew has sent her resume to more than 100 firms since last December, hoping to land a permanent job. But almost a year later, she has not received a single job offer.

“I think it’s because the economy is bad. I’m not sure why. I’m working in an insurance firm as a temp….”’ Quoted from ST dated 2 Nov 15( Acturial should be spelt actuarial).

The difficulties in getting employment by our citizens have gone down to our young graduates. Our very own children are being employed as temp workers while hundreds of thousands of foreigners with silly degrees from silly universities are taking away their jobs. And no one is raising an eye brow, thinking that it is normal. This is a crime against our very own citizens committed by our employers and unproductive foreigner companies allowed to set up business here and to employ their own kind.

I thought after the last GE the govt will change its policies toward more pro citizens. Lim Swee Say is working hard to change the pro foreigner policies of the past to be more pro Singaporean. Hopefully this is the beginning of things getting betterer. He has started to give the breakdowns in employment statistics for citizens and PRs. But from this reported case, many Michelles are still left in the lurch. Our very own children cannot get a normal employment and we are giving hundreds of thousands of jobs to half baked foreigners.

What is happening? No, it is not the economy is bad. It is bad policies. If the economy is bad, why would so many foreigners of average or under average grades at executive and middle management or even senior management be employed and NOT Singaporeans?

Michele and her peers must not be misled to thinking it is the economy. We need to take care of our citizens first. We need to give jobs to our citizens. All the changes in education policies will be hogwash if we do not take our citizens, graduates of our education, seriously and give them jobs. We might as well close down all our universities if we continue to employ foreigners instead of our children.

Go figure why is this the case? You vote for a govt to take care of you, at least to give you good jobs, not temp jobs, not to give jobs to foreigners and say you are not good. Fully employed citizens do not need subsidies.  Is this not a crime against our citizens, our children?

Michele and many of her peers are not lazy, choosy and stupid Singaporeans. They are graduates from our world class universities and willing to work, wanting to work. Who is there to help them, our children?

MOM could simply not approve a few more applications for EPs and there will be plenty of jobs for our citizens. These are not highly skilled and difficult jobs that need special talents.

Ong Chuan Yan, a HR major has sent out applications for more than 6 months. He said, ‘It’s quite stressful because it’s already very competitive and, on top of that, there may be a decision made not to hire anyone.’

South China Sea a win win solution for China and the USA

I wrote this article last week and this morning Today’s frontpage headline flashes this, ‘S China Sea tensions increasing demand for US presence: Pentagon’.  Our local media seem to be very happy to sing the song of the USA. Yes, after raising tensions in the South China Sea, the Americans are drumming up the story that they are needed to bring peace to the region when there was peace before, and some countries are begging them to be here, to increase their military presence in the South China Sea. It is so easily done, to manipulate the silly Asian countries to fight among themselves and to invite the Americans as their guarantor of peace.

Now my article, ‘Was it done by design or things just happened that way, the US provocation in the South China is serving the interests of both the US and China but the silly countries in the region would end up the unthinking and ignorant victims of the power game being played.

What would be the objectives of the US to want to put up a brazen challenge to China by sailing all the way from the land they stole from the Red Indians, across the Pacific Ocean, just to sail a warship outside the 12nm limit of China’s islands? Was it just a show of force to please the Pinoys that big brother is strong and reliable, and it would be better to allow big brother back into Sublc and Clark bases?

The US has bigger concerns. They need to raise tension in the region to make sure they are not driven away. The South Koreans and the Japanese did not want to be semi colonies of the Americans forever. It affects their national pride, to have foreign military bases in their country and to act as if they cannot defend themselves. The Japanese nearly conquered the whole of Asia on their own. They don’t need the Americans to shit, oops, I mean sit in their country like the yakuza and collecting protection money from the Japanese govt. Both Japan and South Korea are getting restless and wanting the Americans out of their countries. Raising tension in the South China Sea would give the Americans the reason to tell these two semi colonies that China is threatening them and they cannot survive without the American troops in their countries.

It would also frighten the shit out of the silly Asean countries. The Americans will tell them, ‘see, the Chinese are expansionist and you need big brother to be around’. And these silly countries will panic and run to America to buy more weapons of war just in case.

The Americans have all to gain and to be patrolling the South China Sea with the consent of the frightened Asean countries like they own the South China Sea. They will become the de facto policeman or gangster in the region, protecting the daft countries with a red herring demon in China. I will post another article on why this is a red herring, China and its neighbours.  The pretentious provocation only cost the Americans some allowances paid to the sailors and burning off some cheap gas.

What about China? China has all the time professed not to militarise the South China Sea. Now with the US provocation, with American warships sailing around their islands, who can tell them not to militarise the islands? They have all the legitimate rights to defend their islands in the face of a military challenge. Now China will conveniently send in all their weapons and turn them into Guam and Gan, military fortresses.  The Americans have given the Chinese the exact excuse to do what they wanted to do but holding back to avoid more accusations from the Asean states.

China must be quietly saying thank you to the Americans for doing them this great favour. Or is this the agreement between Xi Jinping and Obama in Washington during his recent trip? The two super powers putting up a show for all the silly countries in East Asia and South East Asia to see and to panic and to accept a new reality, the militarization of South China Sea and furiously buying more weapons of war from the Americans for a fake security?

The Americans and the Chinese know very well that war between them is beyond comprehension and both would avoid it by all means. Putting up a show to frighten the monkeys and both benefitting from the circus are probably agreed in Washington. The US will get to stay in the region to maintain peace and to ‘balance’ China’s rise while China got to militarise the islands in the South China Sea. And all the silly countries would have to accept American bases and turn themselves into semi American colonies and emptying their pockets to buy more war toys.

What do you think is the truth?

Provoking A Rising Dragon

The American Eagle Fails to Provoke Fight with an Ascending Dragon

By MIKOspace 

Last week and for the very first time, the United States (US) sent one of its most powerful warship, the guided-missile destroyer USS Lassen, to conduct a patrol within 12 nautical miles of a collection of islands disputed by China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Phillippines, Brunei and Malaysia. The US called the mission around the disputed islands in the South China Sea "an assertion of freedom of navigation and as a means to balance power in the region".  Observers noted quickly that the USA herself is not a direct party or a party of interest over the islands per se. 

Officially, the US claimed that its first naval patrol in the area did not target China but was aimed at safeguarding the freedom of navigation on what she considered to be “international” waters. The US warship would conduct its patrol around various man-made features that China, Vietnam and the Philippines have built up in that South China Sea region.  There is however no evidence that maritime navigation or commercial shipping have been affected by the territorial claims by various countries.  As it happened, Chinese navy ships watched puzzlingly at the rather aimless manoeuvres of the US warship which lasted several hours.  It was also unclear what she had accomplished as she sailed away to return to her home port about 4,000km away at Yokosuka Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan.  

And as the surrounding ASEAN countries watched the political show out of bemused amazement and unfunny concern, it was abundantly clear that the US’ move was designed to harass so as provoke an irritated response from the Chinese, who of course did not take the bait of a rather childish faux pas.  No one thought that the USA had any intention to launch a military clash with China over a region where she has no specific interests at stake.   Perhaps, this warship sideshow was somehow timed and planned to ease the passage for a Defense Spending Bill where the delusion of a “looming and imminent war” with China would provide the much needed boost to the US military industrial complex in the absence of their 2 highly “profitable” wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.     

The US was actually warned to stay away from Chinese territorial waters by virtue of the other islands and reefs in the Nansha Islands under her undisputed control. Neither has China broken any international laws in building structures  and land reclamation around 2 of the disputed reefs. Other countries in the dispute have already embarked on various civil constructions before the Chinese.  China's construction work in the area is completely legal and the US would grudgingly acknowledge that.  Never mind US fears that the changing geopolitical situation in the area could be changed following China's island reclamation and that China would gain the advantage for control of all the Nansha Islands and the adjacent seas.  In the event however, no US interest would be affected or harmed.   

From a regional security perspective, ASEAN countries watched with utter disbelief to behold a military superpower like the USA flexing its maritime muscles in such blatant display of irresponsible brinkmanship.  There was nothing to be gained by it and nothing was gained.  And the US also lost tremendous prestige to have her modern warship “retreating” with her flag literally between her propellers.   

Entirely of her own making, the proud American Eagle was thoroughly humiliated and routed by a smarter Ascendent Dragon who refused to play the silly and childish game of “Gotcha”.    

In stark contrast, the US did not display such “righteous” belligerence when her prestige and interests were actually challenged by the Russian Bear in March 2015 when Russia forcibly annexes the Crimea peninsula of Ukraine.  Three US Presidents, who are all alive today – Clinton, Bush and Obama, all reiterated and emphasised US power to safeguard the territorial integrity of Ukraine.  This was in support of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, a political agreement signed with Russia and the United Kingdom in Budapest, Hungary, providing security assurance guarantees for its sovereignty and territorial integrity to then newly formed Ukraine. 

Today, Crimea remained annexed to Russia. No US naval ships challenged the internationally condemned annexation by sailing into Crimean waters, nor did US warplanes fly into Ukraine airspace above Crimea.  Effectively, in spite of the words and promises of three US Presidents, the US had simply abrogated its promises and turned its back on Ukraine.  In March 2015, the American Eagle chose not to confront but to surrender without a fight to the Russian Bear over Ukraine where it had definitive interests as NATO backyard; yet, it chose to provoke but fail to arouse the Chinese Dragon in a region where it has no specific vested interests.  Such is the shameful failure of American Foreign Policy – the absence of clear interests, the ambiguity of her values and the lack of decisive leadership to act and lead where they matter.  

Americans and their leaders apparently have forgotten the words of a former arch-enemy, Japan: "I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve” said by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, upon learning of Japan’s successful attack that he masterminded on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 killing more than 1,400 Americans and wounding another 1,200.

Beware awaking the Ascendent Dragon and fill her with a terrible resolve.

Related:

Beware Awaking A Rising Dragon

LKY’s Timeless Advice on East Asia

APEC Without Japan    

Work place exercise

There is a saying, if you love your work, you don’t have to work a single day. These words are becoming truer today just be a little tweaking in the work place and helping employees to do their work differently. Read in the media that Sheng Siong, the supermarket is teaching its staff how to live well and how to work well, how to stand, how to bend, how to carry things the right way. This reminds me of the elderly woman that picks cardboard for a living and in the process she is doing some exercise at the same time. This is killing two birds with one stone, working and exercising, or like not working but just enjoying an exercise regime.

It would not be a bad idea if organizations with manual workers redesign the way they work, how to carry things, lift things, put things up and down or moving around and turn them into an exercise routine. The staff could be strutting around in style, or doing short sprints in the warehouse or supermarket. There are plenty of space to do such exercises. Maybe change their uniforms to sports gear and instead of dragging their feet, they could be jogging or sprinting. These routines are good for health too and can keep the staff happily engaged in positive thinking, not working.

And yes, add in the music to go with it. The organizations would have happy and jovial people, physically fit and healthy, working and exercising at the same time. I am exercising the joints of my fingers at the moment. I also practice exercising my eye muscles by looking at the screens. I also exercise my mind to prevent dementia setting in. How nice, doing so many exercise at the same time punching the keys on the keyboard.

Now is this not thinking out of the box, turning boring routines in the workplace into exercises and the workplace a nice gym for the staff?

Oh, if there is a train break down, make a public announcement that it is exercise time. The commuters must be told to lug along their jogging gear. And they can change into them and start jogging to their destinations and can thank the MRT for the opportunity to jog. It is all in the mind. Get fit, go green ya?

The Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Manifest Destiny

Why did the West go on the rampage to terrorise the world with merciless killings, genocide, aggression and conquest during the last one thousand years. To understand this psyche of Western Christiandom aggression and expansion we need to know the insidious doctrine they practise. The West strongly believe in their Doctrine of Christian Discovery which later sprouted into the American Doctrine of Manifest Destiny to justify the White American destruction and conquest  of Native American Indians as well as the eventual conquest of Mexican lands, Hawaii, Guam and other Island kingdoms in the Pacific Ocean.

What is this Doctrine of Christian Discovery? This is a very ancient Catholic doctrine and it goes back to  the year 1095, at the beginning of the Crusades. The doctrine is based on the edicts issued by the Popes. In that year 1095 Pope Urban the Second issued an edict called the Papal Bull Terra Nullius. This edict gave the Christian kings and princes of Europe the right to conquer lands from non-Christians
wherever they may be. And in 1492 Pope Nicholas V issued the Bull Romanus Pontifex, declaring war  against all non-Christians throughout the world and authorizing the conquest of their nations and territories. These edicts proclaimed that non-Christians are uncivilized and subhuman and therefore have no rights to any land or nation. The Popes and all the Christian leaders claimed that their Christian God had given the Christians the right to take control of all lands . Armed with these ancient Papal edicts the European Christian countries used them to justify their wars of aggression , colonization, killings and genocide and even trafficked in human slavery.

With this Doctrine of Discovery Christopher Columbus set sail for America in 1492. On the very first day when he set foot on America he performed the ceremony  to immediately  acquire all the lands of the natives for the king of Spain.The following year 1493, Pope Alexander Vl issued the bull Inter Cetera, granting Spain the right to conquer all the lands in America.

By around 1600 , The Doctrine of Discovery was deeply rooted in the Western minds of Christian kingdoms and this led to the conquest of non-Christian lands and people in every part of the world. The concept that white people and Christians have certain divine rights was so ingrained in American national policies that others like the black people of Africa  and the native Americans were treated as subhuman. This enable the white men and the Christians to justify their treatment of black  people with violence and enslavement and the theft of Native American lands with impunity and justification.In 1823, the Doctrine of Discovery was written into U.S. law as a way to deny land rights to Native Americans .  And in 1845 the Doctrine of Discovery was further refined by the Americans with uniquely American flavour with a new term called Manifest Destiny to justify and defend U.S. expansion and claims to new territories. Under the principles of  Doctrine of Discovery and Manifest Destiny the Americans adopted very fierce policy of land acquisition and expansion which proved disastrous to Native Americans, African Americans, Mexicans and others abroad like Hawaii, Guam and other Pacific Ocean islanders. Thus wherever white American Christians go there goes genocide. European Americans had genocided almost ninety-five percent of Native Americans and about seventy to eighty percent natives of Hawaii and Guam.
 
The effects of Manifest Destiny continues today in new extended forms. Under Manifest Destiny America claims the right to impose its democracy on other countries and to carry out regime change on foreign governments which do not toe the American line. American talk about globalization, preemptive war and the responsibilities of U.S. as the world's only superpower reflects the principles of Doctrine of Discovery and Manifest Destiny.
When America carried out regime change in former Yugoslavia, Eastern Europe, Iraq , Libya  and Afghanistan it reflected its Doctrine of Discovery and Manifest Destiny in action. American interference in the South China Sea issues is part of its Manifest Destiny in action. Lastly by using the principles of Manifest Destiny America justifies its actions in interfering in the internal affairs of many other countries in this world especially in South America and in dangerously trying to topple the governments of Iran, North Korea, Russia and China.

The Doctrine of Christian Discovery holds a world view that Christians (European Christians) have a right sanctioned by God to take non-Christian lands and property and assert political control over the indigenous inhabitants living in those lands based on their different religious beliefs The Doctrine of Discovery grows out from a perverted understanding of God's designation of a chosen people that has god's blessing or heavenly sanction to do un-God-like acts in the name of God.Columbus and other European explorers depended on this concept to justify their invasion and conquest of Indigenous lands in both North and South America, Africa, Australia,Asia and New Zealand. The Doctrine of Christian Discovery originated from a Catholic Popes's edict , 'Dum Diversas'   The edict 'Dum Diversas' states that, " We grant you [ Kings of Spain and Portugal ] by these present documents , with our Apostolic Authority, full and free permission to invade, search out, capture and subjugate the Saracens and pagans and any other unbelievers and enemies of Christ wherever they may be , as well as their kingdoms , duchies, counties , principalities and other property  ... and to reduce their persons into perpetual slavery. " Here we see the Doctrine of Christian Discovery embodies and sanction the evil code  which condones the domination of one people by another. In invoking the Doctrine of Discovery Spain in 1513, made used of it to justify the assertion that " God through historical Saint Peter and appointed Papal successors, held authority as ruler over the entire Earth, and that Inter Caetera Papal Bull, of May1493 by Pope AlexanderVI, conferred title over all the Americas to the Spanish monarchs. "  Armed with this Doctrine all subsequent European Christian countries asserted the right that with the help of God they would enter any pagan land to make conquest and subjugate the people to slavery.

The present ill-effects of the Doctrine of Discovery and subsequent off shoot the American Manifest Destiny is that they tend to label non-Christians as subhuman and therefore deprive them of Human Rights, thus giving the white men and the Americans the justification to attack, invade and deprive indigenous people of their lands.The evil and insidious Doctrine of Discovery and the American Manifest Destiny have been the cause of most of the past and present world conflicts and violence. America is using its Manifest Destiny to justify its  intereference with other countries internal affairs, to topple governments and carry out regime change, to defraud the world in the monetary affairs of currency and finance via the banks and stock exchange , to cheat on international trade under its hidden agenda and to destabilise countries that serve the American purpose of asserting hegemony over all countries and all peoples.

The Doctrine of Discovery and the Manifest Destiny are so evil that the United Nations should officially denounced them and make the countries responsible for the doctrines renounce them and revoke them. Only when this is done , the world will be safer and have more peace.


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PS. The western media and powers would not want to be reminded of this shameful and inhuman Doctrine against the people of the world that were colonised, raped and killed by them in the name of God. The current Pope and many western intellectuals have recognised the evilness of their forefathers and are too embarrassed by their actions. Some understood the hypocrisy of the Americans touting human rights and all the shit but many American leaders are still unrepentant and still pushing their hypocrisy to the unthinking coloured people of the world. The saddest thing is that many coloured people of the world refused to see this hypocrisy and insisted that there is no such things, they did not want to know. And they insisted on believing the Great White God and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and American Manifest Destiny. Many of these coloured people are in Southeast Asia and many are in the little Red Dot. Some are regulars in this blog.

It is so pathetic.

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